Yet another African genocide?

[BobbyMac]

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2096266,00.html

 

[killadoob]

this is africa get used to it because nobody will ever do anything to stop it


the sad thing is black are mass killing blacks while accusing whites of being racist

 

[stoke]

Don't confuse political greed and savagery with racism mkay.

 

[BobbyMac]

@stoke:

Racial tensions between local Africans and the descendants of Arab settlers who fanned out across Africa centuries ago have often led to bloodletting, especially in Sudan which was the scene of Africa's longest-running civil war.

I think racial assumptions are very much justified in this instance.

 

[Datura]

Sick, savage and very sad. 400 dead in a population of 9,944,200 is not a genocide though.

 

[Angelo]

Don't confuse political greed and savagery with racism mkay.

People are clutching at straws to try and make themselves feel better (soothe their conscience) about the white on black racism that is still raging.

 

[BobbyMac]

People are clutching at straws to try and make themselves feel better (soothe their conscience) about the white on black racism that is still raging.

What has whites got to do with this? This was a tribal conflict issue:

The incidents occurred after two members of an Arab tribe were slain by a local militia composed of members of the African Dadjo tribe.

@datura: the 500 figure seems to be a thumbsuck at present:

Redmond said: "We may never know the exact number of deaths.

Sadly this could be the first of many more such incidents

 

[Angelo]

What has whites got to do with this? This was a tribal conflict issue:

I was responding to Stoke's comment about this post:

the sad thing is black are mass killing blacks while accusing whites of being racist

 

[Johan Beaurain]

Why and for Who?

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2096266,00.html

All this fighting, killing and fleeing. Who benefits from it?

 

[BobbyMac]

All this fighting, killing and fleeing. Who benefits from it?

Vitamin peddlers?

 

[stoke]

@Johan : Eggzakkery.

 

[McSack]

Vitamin peddlers?

I've obviously missed something here... who is this Johan person so that I can also join bobby in dishing out some abuse? It appears its open season on Beaurains

 

[w1z4rd]

I've obviously missed something here... who is this Johan person so that I can also join bobby in dishing out some abuse? It appears its open season on Beaurains

HIV/AIDS denialist... an african potato and beetroot person. He thinks people must stop using ARVs and use his vitamins instead and accuses the M&G, government and others of genocide for allowing people to use ARVs. Oh, and that all business / governments are run by slavemasters.

 

[edc]

Sick, savage and very sad. 400 dead in a population of 9,944,200 is not a genocide though.

1250+ farmers have been killed. btw.
that is according to a documentary circulating among students, saw it and I think that is the figure.

 

[Albereth]

Maybe we just have some quiet diplomacy there - basically get on with killing your own people and we won't talk about it.